#3849
SNCF Class BB 71000
🇫🇷 France ·built by Fives Group· from 1965· class of 30 French diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB-71008 Chaillevette: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 71000 is a class of 30 centre-cab B′B′ diesel shunting locomotives. Introduced in 1965, they were the last locomotives in service with SNCF to feature side rods. The class was withdrawn from traffic between 1998 and 1999.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 615 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 40 years (1965–2005).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1965–1966
- in service from
- 1965
- retired
- 2005
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Fives Group
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 615 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- length
- 20.2 m
- weight
- 55 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876864, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 71000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.